Home is burning : a memoir

Resource Information

The work Home is burning : a memoir represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Chelmsford Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

Label

Home is burning : a memoir

Title remainder

a memoir

Statement of responsibility

Dan Marshall

Creator

• Marshall, Dan, (Daniel Joseph), 1982-

Subject

• Cancer -- Patients -- United States -- Biography
• Cancer -- Patients | Family relationships
• FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / General
• Fathers and daughters -- United States
• BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
• Marshall, Dan, (Daniel Joseph), 1982- -- Family
• Mothers and daughters -- United States
• Mothers and sons -- United States
• Fathers and sons -- United States

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

"Dan's mom has always had cancer. First diagnosed when he was only ten years old, she was the model of resilience throughout his childhood, fighting her disease with tenacity and a mouth foul enough to make a sailor blush. But just as she faces a relapse, her husband -a successful businessman and devoted father-is diagnosed with ALS. He is told that in a few months' time, he will be unable to walk, eat, or breathe on his own. Dan, a recent college graduate living the good life in Los Angeles, has no choice but to return home to help. Reinstalled in his parents' basement (in one of the only non-Mormon homes in a Salt Lake City subdivision) Dan is reunited with his siblings. His older sister Tiffany is resentful, having stayed closer to home to bear the brunt of their mother's illness. Younger brother Greg comes to lend a hand, giving up a journalism career and evenings cruising Chicago gay bars. Younger sister Michelle is a sullen teenager experimenting with drinking and flirting with her 35-year-old soccer coach. And baby sister Chelsea-the oddest duck in a family of misfits-can only think about dance. Together they form Team Terminal, going to battle against their parents' illnesses and cracking plenty of jokes along the way. As Dan steps into his role as caregiver, wheelchair wrangler, and sibling referee, he watches pieces of his previous life slip away, and comes to realize that you don't get to choose when it's time to grow up"--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Biography type

individual biography

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

• 362.19699/40092
• B

Index

no index present

LC call number

RC265.5

LC item number

M37 2015

Literary form

non fiction